Runes and Rune Pages Costing RP/IP

Starraka·1/28/2017, 1:15:49 AM·1 votes·542 views

So im wondering why you have to pay for rune pages when mastery pages are free. i think in general you shouldnt have to pay for runes let alone there pages. it seems like some archaic part of the game that they added like 7 years ago and havnt bothered to remove.

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2017/01/red-post-collection-zaun-story-update.html#3 they mentioned in this article under /Dev: On League's Business Model that value 3 is "YOU SPEND BECAUSE YOU WANT TO, NOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO". well having to buy runes and there pages which DO affected gameplay seems like you DO have to spend money because you have to, unless you want to be at a disadvantage.

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Mysticman891/28/2017, 1:21:44 AM2 votes

You get two rune pages for free, which is pretty much good enough (one generic 'ap' page, one generic 'ad' page). Getting one or two more is useful (e.g. generic tank page), but they're available for ip so you don't need to spend money unless you want to.

Runes you can't even directly buy with RP, most likely because of the potential gameplay advantages that come from them, but nowadays tier 2 runes are 1 ip each so you can get a full set of almost as effective ones in like a single game.

But yes, runes are something that basically are just a holdover from way back in the day and something they are looking to rework. They're kind of a big deal to change though, so it's a major project likely to overlap with next year preseason (or maybe a mid-season thing). Theres a lot of other big projects competing for that time and those windows for major changes though, so that's why runes tend to keep sticking around.

oSEXYPLATYPUSo1/28/2017, 1:18:01 AM1 votes

but they give you 2 free rune pages... and in theory you can get by with one AD set up and one AP set up...

and runes are free you just have to earn IP to get them... to get IP you just play... any game , any mode it dont matter ...